Twilight Tear

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Twilight Tear
Twilight Tear is one of the "Ten"
Sire:	Bull Lea
Grandsire:	Bull Dog
Dam:	Lady Lark
Damsire:	Blue Larkspur
Sex:	Filly
Foaled:	1941
Country:	United Kingdom
Colour:	Bay
Breeder:	Calumet Farm
Owner:	Calumet Farm
Trainer:	Ben A. Jones
Record:	24: 18-2-2
Earnings:	$ 202,165
Major Racing Wins & Honours & Awards
Major Racing Wins
Arlington Lassie Stakes (1943) Gazelle Handicap (1944) Test Stakes (1944) Acorn Stakes (1944) Coaching Club American Oaks (1944) Pimlico Special (1944) Arlington Classic (1944)
Racing Awards
U.S. Co-Champion 2-Yr-Old Filly (1943) U.S. Champion 3-Yr-Old Filly (1944) U.S. Champion Older Mare (1944) United States Horse of the Year (1944)
Honours
United States Racing Hall of Fame (1963) #59 - Top 100 U.S. Racehorses of the 20th Century
Infobox last updated on: October 8, 2006.

Twilight Tear (1941-1954) was an American Hall of Fame Thoroughbred filly racehorse. At age two, she won four of her six starts, finishing second and third in her other two starts. Her performances earned her a share of 2-year-old filly honors.

At three, Twilight Tear won fourteen out of seventeen races including eleven straight, beating both fillies. In the prestigious Pimlico Special she defeated a Devil Diver and Kentucky Derby and Preakness Stakes winner Pensive in a time that matched the record set by Seabiscuit in the 1938 race. Her dominating performance in 1944 earned her Horse of the Year honors, the first filly to do so in forty years.

In her first race at age four, Twilight Tear suffered respiratory tract problems and was retired to stand as a broodmare at Calumet Farm.

In a poll among members of the American Trainers Association, conducted in 1955 by Delaware Park, she was voted the second greatest filly in American racing history. (Gallorette was voted first.}